I chose the lower of David Hockney's paintings because it is one I didn't know and I liked the colours, they are a bit different for him. The top one is well known and the perspective just makes you want to walk that track.
I hadn't heard of Hundertwasser and was amazed at his buildings. When I first looked I wasn't sure if they were real buildings or just paintings so I had to choose one for my book. The lower painting is a cityscape and reminds me of Klimt with all the little blocks of pattern.
Creating a customised sketchbook.
I must have had an interest in geology even when I was quite young as I have a very old Observers Book of Geology which I know I bought for myself. I recently visited the Rotunda Museum in Scarborough which is entirely devoted to geology and I bought a book about the Yorkshire coastline, known as the Dinosaur Coast (I think you have one down in the south west as well). I decided to make my own book about the dinosaur coast to cement my knowledge and hopefully file it in my brain where I can find it again some day.
All the paper is painted wallpaper lining paper, and I chose to do a stab stitch book as I wasn't sure how many pages I was going to do and I could easily do them in any order.
I started with my two books and an old atlas by the Readers Digest that has a lot of information about the earth.
At a recent paper making workshop, I made two pieces of paper with Kozo fibres embedded in them and I thought one of them looked a bit like a dinosaur footprint so I used that for my front cover.
My first page is showing the ages of the earth with an extending paper attached at the top. The extension is machined on at the bottom of the page to look like black lines.
The next two pages are flaps. The left hand side is a set of little maps showing where the various mining industries were sited as well as the Lower Jurassic rock and the plant fossil beds are. The two ichthyosaurs are glued at the tail and can be lifted to see the plesiosaurs underneath. All the flaps are glued in.
The next two pages are about Whitby. The extended page is stitched in and unfolds in two movements. The first is to demonstrate the difference in height of the two cliffs and the second is to show the opening between the two where the river Esk flows out to see and the ships sail into the harbour. Hopefully you can see my ship.
The next two pages are Robin Hood's Bay and Ravenscar. The photograph just folds out to show the bay and the painted page has been cut into a circular shape to enhance how the bay has been formed.
The next double page is still at Ravenscar and the Peak Fault. This explains how the land has split in two at the headland forming an outcrop of Jurassic sandstone about 500 metres long. I have demonstrated this with and extra point of paper glued in after the book was stitched together. It needs a little help to pop out when you turn the page.
We now move on to Scarborough and a photograph of the town folded in to fit the page. On the second page is an added flap to show how the cliff has formed. This was also glued in.
The next two pages move on to the Upper Jurassic period and Filey Bay. This shows how oil reservoirs are formed and when you lift the flap you have a picture of a rig.
The last double page is a painted map of the rocks and landscape of the area and was done seperately and glued in when the book was finished. The bottom folds up to fit the book.
On the back page is my bibliography and the back cover is the other piece of hand made paper.
I hope this is what was required for the course. I know it wasn't a topic from design sources as such and I have used other publications to provide my information but the line drawings seemed to fit so well into extended pages and I have enjoyed doing it. I feel a child might enjoy looking and playing with this book.
